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What brand of clear coats are you using? Many will tell you what solvent to use. My primary gloss clear coat is Holloway House Quick Shine™ My favorite flat, or matte clear, is Vallejo™. If the bottle instructions don't indicate what solvent to use, let me know. There's a way to figure it out.;)

I have often said that I must be a river otter changeling, considering my love of water and sashimi …

Those are fine for your purpose, see my previous reply.

Applying pencil to a model surface is essentially applying a dry pigment. I get the impression you are brush painting. If so, be sure to thin the clear matte beforehand. If necessary, apply a second coat after it has cured if needed. This is to keep the thick coating and brush from pulling any...

You can always look for aftermarket decals—though if anyone has a good source for them, I'd like to know.

1/72 P-40K-1. Scratchbuilt external gun sight, replaced kit guns and pitot with hypodermic tubing. Special Hobby kit.

P-40K-1 Warhawk, s/n 42-46040, “White 13.” 64th Fighter Squadron “Black Scorpions,” 57th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, USAAF, Hani Main airfield, Tunisia, May 1943. Pilot: 1st Lt. (Later Captain) Robert Johnson “Jay” Overcash, DFC with two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters. 5 victories.

Painted the exhaust cones white, followed by translucent blue. If you shine a light into them, as here, they appear to glow with flame. Now I need a tiny, unobtrusive light source to shine into them.

Rebuilt nose using kit part as armature, scratchbuilt nose probe from hypodermic tubing.

Nose section rebuilt using kit part as armature. Scratch built nose probe from hypodermic tubing.

Hello, I've been building kits since sometime in the 1950's, with a hiatus until a room mate got me started again in college. I build slowly, mainly because I have other things that need doing, and a kit can sit on the bench for a month at a time or longer. I'm also a retired microscopist, and...

Does the CA (superglue) you are using normally turn white? Most such glues are moisture cured, and excess moisture (high humidity) makes them turn white. I prefer to use solvent "cement" for most long seams. To use CA for your application, I use an old style drafting pen...

Pencil is essentially graphite and clay. Both are very fine, platy materials, and adhere mainly by something called electrostatic bonding—they don't really bond to a surface, and worse, they interfere with the bond of other materials. I recommend applying the pencil to panel lines after...